Mental Scrutiny Quotes

An intellectual? Yes. And never deny it. An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself. I like this, because I am happy to be both halves, the watcher and the watched. "Can they be brought together?" This is a practical question. We must get down to it. "I despise intelligence" really means: "I cannot bear my doubts.

I'm always going to be my worst critic.

I determine nothing; I do not comprehend things; I suspend judgment; I examine.

There is no faith, without a critical mind

An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.

Everybody is constantly putting themselves under a microscope in terms of their productivity and their financial success and this whole idea of 'Picture Me Better,' like picture me, you know, who I'm supposed to be versus, you know, just accepting who we all are.

And so it's inescapable and people who proclaim scrupulous honesty can only proclaim that if they don't examine closely the things they believe.

Feelings are like chemicals, the more you analyze them the worse they smell.

I think it's the easiest thing in the world to be horribly critical about yourself.

I'm very self-critical.

When I have a particular case in hand, I have that motive and feel an interest in the case, feel an interest in ferreting out the questions to the bottom, love to dig up the question by the roots and hold it up and dry it before the fires of the mind.

Twere to consider too curiously, to consider so.

I found, and find, the scrutiny of Dr. Lecter uncomfortable, intrusive, like the humming of your thoughts when they x-ray your head.